Storage clusters try to transfer the idea of cluster com puting into the storage domain and to scale capacity and performance by simply adding new cluster components. This paper...
Recent work in the field of middleware technology proposes semantic spaces as a tool for coping with the scalability, heterogeneity and dynamism issues arising in large scale dist...
In this paper, we develop simple models to study the performance of BitTorrent, a second generation peer-to-peer (P2P) application. We first present a simple fluid model and stu...
We describe a P2P system that offers a distributed, cooperative and adaptive environment for bookmark sharing. DAD offers an adaptive environment since it provides suggestions abou...
Several extensions of the Web Services Framework have been proposed. The combination with Semantic Web technologies introduces a notion of semantics, which can enhance scalability ...